Top Youtube Earners & What They Do

By Christina Yeager

The world of social media is now bigger than the television industry. Think about it! Everything is about what you can offer online. Products are marketed online, businesses have their own social media accounts, even TV is marketed online (Netflix, Hulu, etc.). If you have an online business, a certain product or products you want people to buy, or just gain more followers on your social media account, this article is just for you. Let’s talk about digital marketing, how people market their services online to draw more customers. 

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First, we are going to talk about YouTube. YouTube is a perfect example of people that display digital marketing. We’re going to study the top YouTube earners and what they do to attract their niche.
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Branded merchandise experts Purplemoonpromo.co.uk have decided to have a look and find out who are the 20 Youtubers earning the most from selling products and from ads. 

Who earns on YouTube?
In order to understand how this works, we first need to know who earns on YouTube. The people who are making the videos are the ones who actually earn. So yes! The YouTubers themselves are the ones who get paid from YouTube. The top earners on YouTube are PewDiePie, Dude Perfect, and VanossGaming. To earn that much every year, they do more than just post videos. 

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How else do they earn?
A lot of YouTubers sell merchandise to earn more money. PewDiePie, Dude Perfect, and VanossGaming all sold merchandise that contributed to their annual earnings. PewDiePie and Dude Perfect earn well over $1,000,000 just off of merchandise alone (that’s not including what they earn from  ad revenue). PewDiePie brings in $6,834,645 from merchandise while Dude Perfect makes $2,957,950 from merchandise sales.

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Here are some solid facts: 

• The top earning YouTubers from selling products are: PewDiePie ($ 6,834,645), Dude Perfect ($ 2,957,950), VanossGaming ($ 2,281,315), DanTDM ($ 2,207,725) and JuegaGerman ($ 1,956,575).
• There are 12 YouTubers earning over $1mil/month from selling products.
• PewDiePie is the only YouTuber earning over $1mil/month from ads.

Wrapping Up
The truth of the matter is you can’t earn a living on YouTube by uploading videos. All of the YouTubers that found great success almost always went the extra mile. Whether that was creating merchandise, or marketing their channel through other social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. If you wanna make a living off of YouTube you gotta go the extra mile.

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